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Caps Understand Time Is Short

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Members of the Washington Capitals have the proper historical examples to draw upon -- personal examples from previous seasons plus a much more recent one courtesy of the Boston Bruins.

But make no mistake, the Capitals -- down two games to none and about to play the next two contests of this Eastern Conference Semifinal series against the Tampa Bay Lightning at St. Pete Times Forum -- are in a bit of a predicament. 

Washington's power play has failed it in the first two games, and missed chances at burying the Lightning early became the Capitals undoing after unlucky bounces and the failure to succeed at minor details became a much bigger deal in a pair of one-goal...

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